One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREPeople are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.
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It was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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I’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart – and you’ll see how nice I can be.
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Nothingness haunts Being.
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A madman’s ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.
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Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.
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We are our choices.
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